Interested in data-driven insight into the Internet’s availability, evolution, and resilience?
Join the first Pulse Internet Measurement Forum (PIMF) in person or remotely to gain insights into projects tracking the Internet’s growth and resilience and learn how to leverage freely available data to help address challenges and seize opportunities.
PIMF at APRICOT 2025 will consist of two 2.5-hour sessions, focusing on critical themes such as infrastructure resilience, local Internet measurements, security, and market resilience. Speakers include Steve Song from the Internet Society on mapping terrestrial cables and the Open Fibre Data Standard, Andrei Robachevsky of GCA on the MANRS Observatory, Doug Madory from Kentik on issues surrounding AS-SET in the Internet Routing Registry, Geoff Huston and IIJ’s Christoph Visser on evolving trends in Internet markets.
Since 2020, the Internet Society’s Measuring the Internet project and its primary product, Pulse, has been developing resources for users to understand and use data and analysis for their research and advocacy purposes.
To extend the reach of Pulse and tailor it to the various communities that use it, the Internet Society has started a new series of face-to-face and online events, called PIMFs. These forums provide an opportunity to learn about the multiple projects measuring the development and resilience of the Internet, and how you can use the data they openly provide for your research and reports on the challenges and opportunities for growing and securing the Internet.
Following APRICOT 2025, the Internet Society is planning four more face-to-face forums and a host of online forums, including our Pulse Journalist Seminars on Internet shutdowns. Email us at pulse@isoc.org if you’re interested in hosting, partnering, sponsoring, and presenting opportunities.
There’s still time to apply for student support
With support from APNIC and APNOG, the Internet Society is providing 16 free passes to Malaysian tertiary students to attend the first PIMF.
Successful applicants will also have the opportunity to discuss and enrol in future training and fellowship opportunities and meet representatives from the world’s largest Internet organizations.
To apply, applicants must:
- Have an interest in Internet engineering, development, standards, or governance.
- Be enrolled and studying at a tertiary institute in Malaysia.
- Be able to attend the event in Petaling Jaya on 24 February from 9:00 to 17:00 (UTC +8).
- Be able to provide their own travel arrangements to and from the event.
- Provide feedback on their experience within a week of attending the event and during a six-month follow-up survey.
Successful applicants will be notified by 17 February 2025.
Apply now for student support now
Robbie Mitchell is a Senior Communication and Technology Advisor at the Internet Society, with interests in Internet measurement and resilience.
Adapted from the original at Internet Society’s Pulse Blog.
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